HiAs a company we have now taken on under our group names multiple other companies...So the GAL with all the contacts in them is now rather big...I was wondering is there a way of creating seperate address books for all these outlook contacts which are stored in their own OU in AD.The GAL is close to 500 names we want the Global Address Book then an address book for each company, that the user can choose fromI have tried creating a offline address book and it wont download so maybe m barking up the wrong tree..Thanks for any tipsET

GAL Segregation in Exchange 2003 is not supported by changing or modify permissions. However, you can use product called HMC (Hosted Messaging and Collaboration) software to do GAL Segregation.It is FULLY supported on native Exchange 2007 SP1. You can refer white paper linkhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb936719.aspx- White Paper: Configuring Virtual Organizations and Address List Segregation in Exchange 2007.V Bala R Krishna

Hi not the answer I found how to do ...altho they dont work offline most of our users dont work offline so I created new address lists and they propogate quite happily and they are happy without how it looks...Thanks tho...Now I gotta figure out how to hide public folders , all contacts etc from out look when selecting an address book

Hi,You can deny the Open Address List permission for the Authenticated Users on the Public Folder and All Contacts via the ADSI Edit tool.For the ADSI Edit tool, please locate it in the installation file of Exchange, you can view the article as the reference.http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/ebca3324-5427-471a-bc19-9aa1decd3d401033.mspx?mfr=trueThanksAllen

Cant I just do this in System Manager for Exchange 03, edit the permissions for auth users to deny and everyone to deny ?

In Adsi What am I looking for and where I usually edit in AD itself so forgive me and we have some an address book which says It Already Exists but doesnt show up in system manager ...how would I get it to reappear so can remove it as its no longer neededCheers

Ok update :)I found the dead container burined in Configuration / CN Services / CN Address List Container...The CN I need to ditch is not a folder just a icon of a text file so to speak ... is this ok to delete or will it cause more issues ? So far its still there and in outlook you can see the address book listing but it comes back as bookmark not validHelp is much appriciated G

Can anyone help with this

Check Everyone group and Authenitcated Permissions.I hope you already deny for these groups, this while doing segregating address list. In case if you created a security group and added those permissions on the segregated Address list, make sure have granted "Open Address List" permissions, because when configuring Outlook profile, it checks for this permission in AD on Default GAL or Segregated GAL/AL.V Bala R Krishna

HiOk you have totally confused me this is where I am at ....1. I need to hide All users all contacts etc .... in adsi edit which group needs to have read permissions denied etc2. I have created another address book and given myself under my domain login full rights to the address book ..but from within outlook I cant add contacts to the address book which I thought I would be able to ...Im not an exchange expert I know my way around it but a bit confused why if the permissions are set it wont let me add to it ....

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Reading up on DSACLSand I managed to get dsacls "CN=Test1,CN=All Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=MyCompany,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=flexcleck ,DC=local"/I:T /P:N /G "NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:CC"To unprotect the dodgy address book and grant create child objects to it also using GR too...How do I dlete the address book tho or get full control back on it

Anyone any ideas ?